Intersociety
- Nov 6, 2020
Unveiling The Obigbo Army Killing Fields
50 Killed, 80 Injured, Scores Disappeared & Hundreds Held In Secrecy …in all, 110 killed & 200 injured by Army and Police in Rivers, Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi & Enugu via EndSARS. Nigeria: Map of Principle Linguistic Groups (Source: PNGEgg) The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law can circumstantially, verifiably, and statistically state that the EndSARS protests in the Igbo States of Rivers (largely Igbo), Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, and Imo were turned into sh
Burmese Rohingya Organization UK
- Nov 6, 2020
International Acceptance of Rohingya Disenfranchisement Encourages Further Abuses
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK. Rohingya have been barred from voting in the "democratic" elections in Myanmar on 8 November 2020 Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) is concerned that the lack of international condemnation of the disenfranchisement of the Rohingya in Sunday’s election will encourage further human rights violations against the Rohingya people. Not only has the international community been largely silent about the fact that Rohingya ha
Al Jazeera
- Nov 6, 2020
‘We don’t matter’: Rohingya deprived of vote in Myanmar elections
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh, lament their exclusion from the polls. Mohammad Yusuf voted in almost every Myanmar election from 1974 until 2010 – the last time ethnic Rohingya were allowed to vote in the country he still calls home after fleeing three years ago in the wake of a brutal military offensive. When Myanmar holds on Sunday its second democratic election after decades of military rule, Yusuf will be among hundreds of
Genocide Watch
- Nov 6, 2020
Genocide Emergency Alert on the War in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)
From 1915 - 1922, Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were victims of genocide. They endured systematic policies of deportation and extermination. In 1918, Armenian forces halted the Turkish invasion at the Battle of Sardarabad and created the First Republic of Armenia. The First Republic’s policies were discriminatory against non-Armenians. The state systematically expelled Muslim Azerbaijani and Kurdish minorities. Armenian forces under the Dashnaktsutyun party tormented
Human Rights Watch
- Nov 5, 2020
Lebanon: Broken Promises On Women’s Rights
UN Review Should Focus on Increased Protection Against Violence, Bias Lebanese women have long been leaders in the country’s protest movements. Here, women shout slogans and wave the Lebanese flag during a demonstration in down town Beirut on October 19, 2019. © Marwan Naamani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Beirut) – Lebanese authorities are falling short of their international legal obligations to protect women and girls from violence and end discrimination against them, Hu
Al Jazeera
- Nov 5, 2020
Kosovo war crimes suspect Krasniqi arrested, sent to The Hague
Veteran politician was picked up by heavily armed police in a raid at his home on the outskirts of Pristina. Jakup Krasniqi, a veteran Kosovo politician and former spokesman for the Kosovo Liberation Army, has been arrested and transferred to The Hague, the Kosovo war crimes tribunal said in a statement. Krasniqi, the former speaker of parliament, will face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Kosovo Specialist Chamber added. It did not give details about th
Oliver Holmes
- Nov 5, 2020
Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says
Demolitions used as a ‘key means’ to ‘coerce Palestinians to leave their homes’ Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have razed a Palestinian village, leaving 73 people – including 41 children – homeless, in the largest forced displacement incident for years, according to the United Nations. Excavators escorted by military vehicles were filmed approaching Khirbet Humsa and proceeding to flatten or smash-up tents, shacks, animal shelters, toilets, and solar panels. “These
Omar Alshogre | Al Jazeera
- Nov 4, 2020
Surviving torture in a Syrian prison made me who I am today
My journey from Syria’s notorious Branch 215 prison to the US’s Georgetown University. A photo of the writer following his recovery in Sweden and one immediately after his release from prison in Syria [Photo courtesy of Omar Alshogre] Suppressing political opponents through force and torture is what dictators do. Today, for merely calling for their freedom, more than 100,000 civilians are suffering in Syria’s detention centres. I used to be one of them when I was still just a
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
- Nov 4, 2020
The rising tide of hate against the Rohingya
Evidence is beginning to emerge that the Myanmar military, the Tatmadaw, is once again instigating a campaign of propaganda against the Rohingya. Observers on the ground are convinced that violence will surely follow once again. Of the 1 million Rohingya who was in Myanmar in 2016, about two-thirds were pushed over the border to Bangladesh during the military’s “clearing operations” in 2017 and 2018. It was an act of genocide that is being prosecuted in the International Cour
Iñigo Alexander | NACLA
- Nov 2, 2020
Indigenous Guatemalan Journalist Faces Charges after Reporting on Protest
The arrest of Maya K’iche’ journalist Anastasia Mejía exposes the Central American country’s ongoing assault on press freedom. November 2, 2020 Anastasia Mejía was released from jail to house arrest last week. (Carlos Choc, Prensa Comunitaria) For 37 days, Maya K’iche’ journalist Anastasia Mejía was held in detention at a women’s prison on the outskirts of Quetzaltenango, a small city in Western Guatemala. The National Police detained Mejía on September 22 and charged her wit
Elias Meseret | AP
- Nov 2, 2020
Survivors count 54 dead after Ethiopia massacre, group says
A man waves an Oromo flag during a gathering in Addis Ababa. The attack occurred in Ethiopia’s restive Oromia region. Photograph: Yonas Tadesse/AFP via Getty Images ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Survivors of a massacre by rebels in western Ethiopia on Sunday counted 54 bodies in a schoolyard, the latest attack in which members of ethnic minorities have been deliberately targeted, Amnesty International said Monday. Human rights groups are asking why federal soldiers left the ar
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